Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko.

Summary: Jeremie's gone missing and no one has any idea why. When XANA launches an attack, who will work the super computer? Will they have to result to someone else? And will they ever find Jeremie again?

Author's Note: Surprisingly, no author's note.

Reviewers: Princess Aelita Lyoko, A-J-U-Y-O-S, XANA-Zach45

Missing

Chapter Five

XANA's squirrel gang slid down the ropes at the factory. He instructed one of his followers to rewire some of the wires for their ride. The elevator switched its course from the scanner room to the top of the factory.

Ulrich walked out of the scanner, scolding himself for being so stupid. He pushed the elevator button, but nothing happened. He pushed it again. Still, nothing happened. Ulrich manually opened the door and looked up. The elevator was moving downwards, but not to the scanner room. It stopped at the super computer room, where Rose was. Ulrich narrowed his eyes and jumped on the ladder to climb up to the super computer room.

Just then, Rose screamed. Odd, Aelita, and Yumi heard it over Lyoko and Ulrich heard it down the elevator shaft.

"Rose! What's going on?" Odd yelled.

"XANA!" she screamed. Ulrich heard that and climbed faster. The gang of squirrels jumped out of the elevator and took various positions in the room. Rose's eyes widened.

"Guys, the squirrels are here," Rose said shakily. "Please hurry."

"You heard the genius," Odd ordered. "Move it!" Yumi flipped her fan open and got rid of the last megatank.

"Alright Aelita, the coast is clear," Yumi said, tucking her fan in its pouch. "Go ahead." Aelita nodded and ran the last few feet to the tower. She phased into the tower and walked to the middle of the XANA symbol.

Back in the factory, Ulrich reached the super computer room.

"Ulrich, there you are!" Rose yelled, scrunched in a ball on the chair. "Um, what would happen if XANA bit me?"

Ulrich ran over a kicked a few of the squirrels away from Rose.

"You'd become a zombie of XANA," he answered, grabbing a pole and smacking some more squirrels.

"Oh, lovely," Rose said.

Aelita rose up to the second platform in the tower. When her feet touched the ground, the XANA symbol lit up. When Aelita walked to the middle, a light blue screen opened up for her. Aelita placed her hand on the screen.

Aelita

Code

Ulrich slammed more of XANA's gang, but he missed one. One of them climbed on Rose and readied to bit her arm. He opened his mouth.

Lyoko

The squirrels froze. Their eyes lost the red tint and symbol. All of the squirrels were unconscious on the floor. Rose shook the frozen squirrel off of her arm.

"Eww!" she exclaimed. "Gross!" Ulrich smiled.

"Now we just have to do a return to the past," he said.

"But I don't know how to do that," she frowned. She turned to the computer. "Aelita, do you know how to return to the past?"

"Yes, but you won't remember any of it," Aelita explained. Rose frowned and looked at Ulrich. He frowned as well.

"B-But… I want to remember," Rose said. "Is there any way for me to remember at all?" Aelita shook her head.

"The only way you could remember was if you'd turned Lyoko on in the first place or we didn't do a return to the past," she explained.

"I vote not to return to the past," Odd said out of nowhere, making Rose jump. She forgot that he and Yumi were still on Lyoko and could hear everything they were saying. Aelita walked out of the tower to where the others were standing.

"Why's that, Odd?" Aelita questioned.

"Because we can't return to the past far enough to where Jeremie was back," he answered. "And if XANA attacks again, we'd have to explain everything to Rose again." Yumi nodded.

"I agree with Odd," she said. "Besides, it's not like XANA actually hurt anybody. A police report would show up on the super computer if he did."

"And we could see if Rose can find Jeremie," Odd added. "She's really smart." Rose flushed and smiled.

"Well, I suppose it's alright," Aelita said. Rose smiled really big.

"You mean it?" she asked. "I get to remember?" Aelita and Ulrich nodded. She blinked back tears of happiness. "This is so great!" Rose clapped her hands joyfully.

"If we're not doing a return to the past, Yumi and Odd will have to be devirtualized," Aelita said. Rose stopped clapping.

"Oh, right!" she laughed. "Now how do I do that?"

"The reverse order as the virtualization process," Aelita told.

"Okay, that's easy!" Rose exclaimed. She punched in more computer code. "Materialization Odd! Materialization Yumi!" She stopped typing code, but remembered something. Rose turned to Ulrich.

"What about Aelita?" she asked. "Don't I have to materialize her, too?" He shook his head.

"No, she lives on Lyoko," he replied. "Jeremie's been trying to find a materialization code for her, but he's had no luck."

"Oh. Well, when we find Jeremie, I'll see if I can help him find the code!" she said, grinning.

"I'm sure he'll need all the help he can get," Ulrich added, smiling as well. The elevator opened and Odd and Yumi walked out. Rose hopped up and ran over to hug Odd. He stumbled with the sudden amount of weight, but hugged back all the same.

"Thanks for arguing to let me remember," she said gratefully. She let go of Odd and smiled.

"No problem," he answered, flushing slightly. Yumi kicked a squirrel that was lying in front of her.

"Maybe we should get these squirrels back to the forest before they wake up," she suggested.

"Good idea," Rose said.

"Wait Rose, there's one more thing," Aelita spoke from the monitor. Rose rushed over to the super computer.

"Yes Aelita?" she asked.

"I'll need you to enter some code into your own computer, so you can scan for activated towers on Lyoko and so I can contact you if I need to," Aelita answered. Rose smiled.

"Sure thing," she said. She bent down to her backpack and opened it. She pulled out her laptop and opened it, typing in the password. Aelita told her the code and Rose entered it with perfection and accuracy.

"Okay, now what?" Rose questioned. Aelita smiled.

"Push enter and watch what happens," she said. Rose did as she was told and pushed enter. After she did, her screen flashed blue and white and then turned red. Then the colors slowly faded and were replaced with more computer code, a small version of a Lyoko tower, and a XANA symbol.

"Wow, that was amazing," Rose commented, turning to Aelita. She smiled.

"Now I just need your laptop number and I'll be able to contact you if XANA decides to attack," Aelita said.

"Sure, it's R50e," Rose answered.

"Thanks," the pink sprite replied. Rose smiled and put her laptop back into her backpack. She buckled it up and threw it on her shoulder. Then she proceeded helping the gang pick up the fallen squirrels.